HCC: Small: The role of social network sites in facilitating collaborative processes

合作，当它起作用时，优化个人的贡献，通常会产生比个人单独工作更好的决策，结果和体验。社交网站（SNS）提供了新的合作机会，由于其社会和技术的启示。SNS档案可以显示身份信息，这可以作为社交润滑剂，帮助个人发起对话并找到共同点。在SNS中，联系人列表降低了与互动相关的交易成本。最后，社交网络使人们能够接触到更多的个人（以及他们更广泛和更多样化的知识库），同时也提供了一种环境，使社会资本进程成为鼓励合作、提供咨询和分享信息的机制。这个项目将开发和测试一个模型的SNS启用合作的动机是以下研究问题：什么形式的合作是启用SNS？SNS的特征如何影响这些过程？谁使用这些网站进行合作，为什么？本研究将探讨SNS促进合作的情况下，使用定量和定性数据，以提供深入了解用户的动机，看法和概念框架。首先，我们将研究大学生之间的特设合作的例子，探讨如何关系的启动和合作发生，无论是在SNS和面对面的情况。其次，将分析Facebook上的聚合行为模式，以发现和调查网站上的协作模式。

Collaboration, when it works, optimizes the contributions of individuals, often resulting in better decisions, outcomes, and experiences than individuals working alone. Social network sites (SNSs) offer new opportunities for collaboration due to their social and technical affordances. SNS profiles enable the display of identity information, which can act as a social lubricant and help individuals initiate conversations and find common ground. Within SNSs, contact lists lower the transaction costs associated with interaction. Finally, SNSs enable access to a larger pool of individuals (and their wider and more diverse knowledge base) while also providing a context in which social capital processes serve as a mechanism for encouraging collaboration, advice-giving and information-sharing. This project will develop and test a model of SNS-enabled collaboration motivated by the following research questions: What forms of collaboration are enabled by SNSs? How do the features of SNSs affect these processes? Who uses these sites to collaborate and why?This study will examine SNS-facilitated collaborative instances using quantitative and qualitative data to provide insight into users motivations, perceptions, and conceptual frameworks. First, we will examine examples of ad-hoc collaboration among college undergraduates to explore how relationship initiation and collaboration occur, both in SNS and face-to-face contexts. Second, aggregate behavioral patterns on Facebook will be analyzed to discover and investigate modes of collaboration on the site.